Beef Production

Cow (cattle)
1. Water
  1. It takes 1670 L of water to produce a pound of beef (0.45 g), 11 times more than the amount required for pork or chicken.
2. Food
  1. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
    1. 1/3 of the worlds grain harvest is used for livestock production
  2. 75kg-300kg of dry matter (grass/grain) for 1 kg of protein
  3. Largest component of beef’s water footprint is the huge volume of virtual water consumed by cattle through their feed, in this case both forage and grain
3. Land
  1. Degredation
    1. Rainforest damage and loss (for example brazil, where forest is destoryed new rangeland)
    2. 1.5 acres of rainforest worldwide are lost each second, with clearing for cattle pasture being the major contributer
  2. Desertification
  3. 28 times more land intensive than pork or chicken.
  4. Fertilizer applied to soil generates nitrous oxide, which has 300 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide
4. Immunisations
  1. medical companies
  2. widespread antiobiotic use
5. Slaughter
  1. Transportation
    1. To the butchers
      1. Tools
        steel and aluminium production
        energy
      2. Packaging
        synthetic plastic production
        Canned product
        Approximately 23 percent of the energy used in our food production system is allocated to processing and packaging food.
      3. Waste
        Disposal packaging
        Plastic use
        Incineration
        Air pollution hrough release of harmful pollutants
        Water pollution through byproduct release to water bodies
        Reduced biodiversity in water bodies due to runoff of Nitrogen
        Water usage to clear excess waste
        Increased water footprint
        Waste runoff may affect other ecological systems
        Half of every butchered cow is not consumed
        Animal Fat
    2. Refridgeration
    3. Roads and Infrastructure
    4. Trucks
    5. Fuel Production
    6. Grain-fed beef requires 35 fossil fuel calories for every 1 calorie produced (including transport)
    7. 55-150 liters of water are required per day based on different type of beef in transportation.
    8. For cattle travelling more than 1000km the transport component costs $150 per head.
  2. unused meat recycling
    1. The rendering process simultaneously dries the material and separates the fat from the bone and protein. A rendering process yields a fat commodity and a protein meal.
6. Transportation
  1. Cattle Yards
    1. Infrastructure
7. Waste
  1. Manure
  2. California’s 1.4 million dairy cows produce as much waste as 28–56 million people
8. Hormones
From animal to beef
1. Abattoir
  1. Infrastructure
    1. Cold Room
      1. Storage
        Air conditioning
        Electrical energy
        CFC's/ Carbon Dioxide
        Beef production accounts for 500% more climate warming emissions than pork and chicken.
    2. tools
    3. construction
2. slaughter
Shops
1. Money
2. Transportation
  1. Home
    1. Waste
      1. Beef represents the largest contribution to post-consumer GHG emissions embodied in food waste
3. Plastic Bags
  1. Manufacturing
    1. crude oil
    2. gas
  2. waste
    1. Landfill waste
      1. Area no longer available for growth of ecologival system
        Harmful release of gases (such as methane) to the atmosphere
4. Receipts
  1. Factory
    1. forestry
    2. water use
    3. transport
      1. infrastructure
5. Marketing
  1. Independant firms
    1. TV
    2. Radio
    3. Catalogues and other print media
      1. paper
        wood
        foresty
      2. ink
      3. water
      4. waste
      5. recycling
        water
    4. Headquarters
      1. Building
        Utilities
        Concrete
        steel
      2. wokers
        Transport to work
    5. Billboards
6. Fastfood industry
  1. Fat intensive food
    1. Public health problems
Cooking
1. BBQ
2. Fry Pan
  1. steel
    1. manufacturing
      1. utilities
3. utilities
4. Human body
  1. Dioxin (Cancer causing)
  2. Alzheimer's disease
  3. Cardiovascular disease
  4. Heart disease
  5. Dementia
  6. Obesity
5. Amercians eat 122kg of beef per year (global average is 36kg per person
The ratio of energy input to food-energy output for beef is 40:1

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